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Poems by Presidents: the First-Ever Anthology
Poems by Presidents: the First-Ever Anthology
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This anthology showcases poems by eleven US presidents, offering insights into their lives and American history, with selections ranging from teenage yearnings to death-bed adieux, sonnets to limericks, and existential reflections. Additional presidents who wrote poetry are explored in appendices.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 26 January 2024
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
Eleven US presidents have contributed poems to this first-ever anthology, offering a unique and captivating glimpse into their lives and American history. Throughout their terms, presidents have turned to poetry as a means of self-expression, capturing both the highs and lows of their experiences. Among the featured selections are George Washington's teenage romantic yearnings, Thomas Jefferson's death-bed adieu, John Quincy Adams's sonnet commemorating his father, John Tyler's poignant elegy for his daughter, Abraham Lincoln's mockery of the Confederacy, Woodrow Wilson's humorous limericks, Warren G. Harding's steamy love poems to his mistress, and Ronald Wilson Reagan's existential reflections. Additional appendices delve into the poetry of other presidents, instances of misattribution, prose presented as verse, and the presidents' fondness for poetry.
Weight: 200g
Dimension: 220 x 130 x 8 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780486851532
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